Altenew | A Year In Review Blog Hop + Giveaway (CLOSED)

Hello and welcome to Altenew A Year In Review Blog Hop! Our design team and amazing guest designers sharing the best creations we made using Altenew supplies. You may saw them before, but still isn’t it a great way to look back one more time at the year coming to its end before going forward?

You probably came from Chari Moss blog. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew Card Blog and see what other members of Altenew’s design team and guest designers sharing (and also you have a chance to win fun prizes).

Here are my top 4 Altenew projects of 2017

It was quite hard to choose top 4. I’m pretty critical to my cards and dislike quite a bit of them. But when you work with Altenew products they are so beautiful that already make at least half of a card 🙂

BUILD-A-FLOWER: ASTER

​This year Altenew started releasing a Build-A-Flower product each month. All they are very beautiful and some made my top.

Beautiful Aster is one of them. I made this card trying to replicate a look of vintage botanical posters. You can find more details in this post.

BUILD-A-FLOWER: CORAL CHARM

​Blue and brown shades is one of my favorite color combos and I feel like any card made using this combo is a winner 😉 For the card below I used another BAF – Coral Charm and here is its blog post.

RAIN OR SHINE

​This card is my favorite card of this year. You know I like making realistic scenes. And I like storm weather. On this card I was able o create a pretty realistic storm scene. It was so easy to make using Rain and Shine Stamp Set. This card was one of three made for this stamp focus post.

And as I mentioned above – it was very hard to choose only for. So here are some honorable mentions 🙂

I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $20 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by Thursday, January 4th 2018 at 11:59 PM ET for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on Friday, January 5th 2018.

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Teri S.

December 22, 2017

You are a great crafter of cards & I also think the weather card is my favourite, with the cherry blossom & the earth behind it is my second fave. Thanks for showcasing your talent. Wishing you a happy new year from the west coast of Canada!

Jeanne Beam

Diana Stocksdale

December 22, 2017

My absolute favorite card, from those above is the rain or shine card. It came out when hurricanes were devastating locations close to me, and it contained the most perfect message. The purple really pulled the card together and gave it a warmth that was comforting. It’s a card I’ll never forget. Your work is always amazing, but this piece really spoke to me. Thank you so very much!

Terri

Lynne Ingram

December 22, 2017

Your work is always a delight. Your composition original and enjoyable. My favorite is the You are the best Mom in the world card with the branches over lthe world, so simple, yet pleasing to the eye. 2nd place goes to the brown build-a-flower rose. Merry Christmas

Pamela Parks

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Manda LJ

December 22, 2017

I’m happy to see you couldn’t really restrict your choice to only four cards! Thanks for sharing your selection of your favourite cards this year. I really liked the dramatic purple sky and lightning and the Grid Stencil cards!

Karen Quinn

Jo Ann Usey

December 23, 2017

The cards are terrific. Like you, my favorite is the card with the Rain or Shine stamp set highlighted. Such vibrancy! But truly, all the other cards are just as amazing! That card using the Grid Stencil — SUPER!

Nana Griffin

Becca Yahrling

December 25, 2017

Wow, lots of awesome cards here! I’m having a hard time picking only one favorite.
Love the one with the lightning – very striking. The ‘hello’ mosaic card is really cool.
And the one using ‘Garden Treasure’ is just lovely.

Marjorie Dumontier

ambecoming

December 26, 2017

These are all beautiful, and I was overwhelmed by the first 4 and wondering how to comment on all four and keep it brief…then I kept scrolling. You are really amazing. I think the thing that pulls me in is the way you use color…most of my favorites here have very simple color but done beautifully. The ‘beautiful day’ and the ‘weather together’ cards are wonderful. Thank you.

Patt H.

Dawn Jones

December 29, 2017

I love to see how the products can be used, especially the stencils. From ink to paste to embossing, they are so versatile . If you love cherry blossoms, check out Hanko Designs. They have beautiful Asian art designs and great products for paper designers.

Cassandra

Sheila B.

December 30, 2017

Wow! What magnificent cards. My two favorites are the realistic card @ weathering together and the grid stencil card with the gradients of color. I appreciate the work and creativity that went into the cards.

jenny stratton

Mary MacFadyen

January 1, 2018

If I have to choose favourites they would be the cherry blossom and moon,and the lightning card.
I enjoy your vision. Your cards are all lovely.
Your lightning card is very true to life. There was a time in my life when my job was counting lightning strikes. And this is what they look like.